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August 16, 2020 8 Comments How to Draw

How to Learn to Draw by Tracing

Tracing has a real bad name in the artistic community, and for a good reason—an artist can spend years to learn how to draw a realistic human from imagination, and a tracer can replicate the same end result in minutes. However, there are other forms of tracing that have nothing to do with pretending you…

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August 9, 2020 7 Comments How to Draw

I Want to Draw, But I Don’t Know How to Start

There are plenty of beginner tutorials for people who want to learn how to draw. But it’s like there’s no order to them—one’s teaching you perspective, other’s about color theory, then there’s one about anatomy, and another one about physics of light. And the worst thing is that each of them seems to require knowledge…

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July 31, 2020 1 Comment How to Draw

How to Fix Proportions in Your Drawing

Let’s say you’re drawing something from a photo reference, and you can see something is wrong—you’re not sure what exactly, but your drawing looks different than the reference. In this short tutorial I’ll show you how to fix this issue by adjusting the proportions. How to Fix Proportions in Your Drawing This is my sketch,…

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April 25, 2020 4 Comments Animal Anatomy

Best Resources for Studying Animal Anatomy

If you want to draw realistic creatures from imagination, you have to be familiar with animal anatomy. It’s a fascinating subject, but it can be overwhelming for a beginner. Where should you even start? The best method, in my opinion, is to pick a part of the body, find a photo of it, and try…

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March 8, 2020 1 Comment Digital Art

Shy baby Dragon: The Making Of

I’m still not confident enough in this method to create a full tutorial on it, but if you want, I can share my current process with you. Here’s how I painted my shy baby dragon in Autodesk SketchBook! 1. Sketch As always, I started with a loose sketch that presents the forms and the necessary…

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February 10, 2020 2 Comments How to Draw

Drawing 101: How to Draw Proportions

Proportions are probably the most important element of realistic drawing. No matter how much time you spend on your artwork, if you mess up the proportions, it will still look worse than a simple, yet proportionate sketch. In this tutorial I’ll show you why drawing correct proportions is so hard, and how to look at…

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